Tag Archives: NXT

This update is mostly a “bug fix” release to take care of a few issues + inclusion of the recently released VEX Cortex Master Firmware Update (4.25). If you’re still using 4.27, you can see the changelog from 4.27 to 4.29 here. The 3.65 version is for teams that still using ROBOTC 3.x for their robots. For those of you ... Read More »

I was invited by Hakan, a Computer Science teacher at the Metis Montessori Lyceum (a secondary level school), to be a guest speaker at the Metis CoderDojo in Amsterdam last weekend and it was so much fun! The theme for the day was line following robots with LEGO MINDSTORMS. I was a little intimidated at first, nothing is scarier than ... Read More »

So you think you can Changelog? Grab a cup of coffee and something to eat, because this is a LONG list. ROBOTC 4.29 is out we’ve made a lot of changes to all platforms. Many bugs were squashed and some new features were added Please note that the Changelog is split up into changes from 4.27 (previous release) to 4.28 ... Read More »

Want to earn a free Virtual Brick license? Be one of the first 20 to write a review about it on your website, blog or Tumblr or whatever it is you crazy kids use nowadays, and you’ll receive a free license! Just drop me a mail when it’s up. How easy is that? Update: There seems to be some confusion as ... Read More »

Robomatter has released a new product called the Virtual Brick. They have re-engineered the Virtual NXT and added new functionality, new blocks, improved robot performance, as well as a new interface to make the Virtual Brick much easier to use with the EV3. The “Brick” part is because it now works with both LEGO bricks; the NXT and EV3. What is the ... Read More »

If you’re like me and you use a lot of Virtual Machines, then this may be of some use to you. In Robot Virtual Worlds, you have 3 camera settings: Follow mode: you can use the wheel to zoom in and out. Camera view from above Free movement: hold left button and move to move the view. The wheel is ... Read More »

Just in time for Christmas! A new release of ROBOTC for both LEGO MINDSTORMS and VEX. So many new features and bug fixes have been added for all the platforms that the original ROBOTC blog had to have two separate posts for the releases. I won’t rehash everything that’s on them; you can read the one for LEGO MINDSTORMS here: ... Read More »

I was wondering if a one of the 3rd party sensor companies was ever going to come up with an EV3/NXT adapter for the Grove System. Not sure what it is? Grove System is an interface standard that allows you to connect all sorts of peripherals to your microcontroller. There are adapters for Arduino and RaspberryPi, but not for the ... Read More »

This is a copy of the post on the ROBOTC website, the original announcement can be found here: [LINK]. The ROBOTC Development Team is very excited to announce our latest release update, ROBOTC 4.27! This update is for the both the VEX Robotics (CORTEX and IQ) and LEGO MINDSTORMS (NXT and EV3) robotics systems and includes new features, functionality and a load of ... Read More »

If you receive a mail like the following below, don’t panic, it’s not a phishing expedition by some ruthless hacker. You’re seeing the fruits of the hard labour that Sebastian Trella has done to resurrect the Mindboards forums. Please spread the news on your blog, if you have one. Dear mindboards.net forum member: The MindBOARDS forums have finally been moved ... Read More »